Fever (Cascada song)

"Fever"
Single by Cascada
from the album Evacuate the Dancefloor
ReleasedOctober 9, 2009 (2009-10-09)
Recorded2009
GenreEDM, Eurodance
Length3:24
LabelZooland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Cascada singles chronology
"Evacuate the Dancefloor"
(2009)
"Fever"
(2009)
"Dangerous"
(2009)
Alternative cover
U.S. release
Music video
"Fever" (official video) on YouTube

"Fever" is a single released by Cascada from their album Evacuate the Dancefloor. It was released as the second single from the album, initially in Germany on October 9, 2009,[1] with various other countries following suit. In the United Kingdom it served as the third single from the album (following 'Dangerous', which was selected as the second single there).

Music structure

"Fever" is the only song on the Evacuate The Dancefloor album that has profanity, though the one occasion where this happens is bleeped out. It has a moderate dance groove and it is composed in the key of D minor with a tempo of 128 beats per minute.[2]

Music video

It was mentioned on the Official Cascada Twitter page that a video was shot at the end of July,[3] but the identity of the track was kept secret at the time. The video was finally revealed as "Fever" and had its official premiere on German TV station Viva on September 17, 2009.[4]

The video begins with several still shots of an office building, and singer Natalie Horler and two entourage walking inside. Horler, wearing a navy blazer with a pink corset, stockings and pink ballerina-style black high heels and holding a cane, and her two backup dancers walk past a businesswoman who is having trouble holding several books and papers. Horler knocks over what she is carrying, and her papers flutter down several flights of stairs. She walks into a business meeting, and angrily hits her cane on the table while her entourage destroy several posters of Horler labeled "beauty" and "princess". She crawls across the table, and the video cuts to Horler and her two dancers on a stage in the office lobby, dancing while attracting the attention of everyone passing through the room. This scene is shown throughout the video. Horler is also shown in several scenes chair dancing with her backup dancers and also lying on pink chiffon. In the meeting room, Horler continues to crawl across the table, grabbing a businessman by his tie and pushing him back in his chair and also throwing a glass of water into the face of one businesswoman. Horler then takes a businessman's papers and throws them in the air while her backup dancers cause havoc by pouring a liquid on a man's head and begin to kiss one of the businesswomen. In the third verse of the song, the video cuts into slow motion, and towards the end of the verse, Horler pulls out a can of hairspray from a bag on the table and sets the scattered papers across the table and everything else in the room on fire while the businesspeople evacuate the room.

The video began to receive airplay on UK music channels on November 4, 2009.

Track listing and formats

Charts

The single was released on December 21, 2009, in the United Kingdom, but due to lack of airplay and no physical CD release, the single failed to make any impact on the charts.[11] This marks the first time a Cascada single has failed to appear in the top 100 in the UK. The single did however chart at #36 on the UK Dance Chart. The song debuted at #31 in Germany and #10 in France. The single spent a total of 14 weeks on the US Hot Dance Airplay Chart with a peak of #14. The single stayed 27 weeks in the France Single Charts[12]

Chart (2009/2010) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 41
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[14] 38
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders)[15] 6
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia)[16] 9
Czech Republic (Rádio – Top 100)[17] 27
European Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[18] 31
France (SNEP)[19] 10
Germany (GfK)[20] 31
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[21] 24
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[22] 55
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[23] 32
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[24] 16
UK Dance (OCC)[25] 36
US Dance Airplay (Billboard)[26] 14

Year-end charts

Chart (2010) Position
France (SNEP)[27] 79

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Germany, Austria, Switzerland October 9, 2009[1] CD single, Digital download Zooland
Netherlands October 27, 2009 [28] Digital download Cloud 9
Australia November 20, 2009 CD single, digital download Universal
United Kingdom December 21, 2009 Digital download All Around the World
France January 18, 2010[29] CD single, Digital download Universal
United States January 26, 2010[30] CD Maxi-Single, Digital Download Robbins
February 16, 2010 Airplay

References

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  4. ^ "Cascada - Fever (Official Video HD Version)". 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2012-02-16 – via YouTube.
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  14. ^ "Cascada – Fever" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
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  16. ^ "Cascada – Fever" (in French). Ultratip.
  17. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 15. týden 2010 in the date selector.
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  20. ^ "Cascada – Fever" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  21. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Cascada" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  22. ^ "Cascada – Fever" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  23. ^ "Cascada – Fever". Top 40 Singles.
  24. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201004 into search.
  25. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.
  26. ^ "Cascada | Chart history". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
  27. ^ "Top de l'année Top Singles 2010" (in French). SNEP. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
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